The correct Buddhist view of the world and humankind is inseparable from the law of dependent origination. In symbolizing this relationship, primitive Buddhist texts describe an aspirant who has acquired proper understanding and has arrived at the first stage of enlightenment as having received the Eye of the Law, unblemished and unsoiled. Frequently, similar texts say that the Eye of the Law consists in being able to see that all things born of causes and conditions cease to exist when those causes and conditions are destroyed. In short, a person who has attained this stage of understanding perceives the principle of dependent origination, equated with the immutable Law.